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单词 requiem shark
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requiem shark
A large or dangerous shark; (Zoology) (more fully requiem shark) a member of the family Carcharhinidae, which includes many of the typical large and medium-sized sharks (as the tiger, bull, blue, and reef sharks) and the hammerheads.
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1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. xvii. 102 The Requiem, otherwise called the Shark-Fish, is a kind of Sea-Dog or Sea-Wolf.
1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands i. xvii. 103 The French and Portuguez commonly call it Requiem, that is to say Rest, haply, because he is wont to appear in fair weather.
1696 tr. Voy. to Canary Islands 61 in tr. A. Duquesne New Voy. E.-Indies The Requiem, the Monster of the Sea, that's shap'd like a Sea-Dog, is in length from three or four Foot to eight.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 281 Hayes or Requiens, by some (though utterly wrong) named Sea-Dogs;..are very thick as well as very long, some of them betwixt twenty and thirty foot.
1745 tr. G. Loyer in New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. iii. iii. 431/2 The chief are Sharks or Requiems, a dangerous Fish.
1834 Bk. Fishes 125 We shall conclude this account of the Requin, with several anecdotes illustrating the habits of these monsters of the deep.
1896 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Fishes N. & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 47) i. 27 [Family] Galeidae. (The Requiem Sharks)... Sharks with 2 dorsal fins, the first short and high, entirely before the ventrals.
1941 Amer. Naturalist 75 551 The 10-foot tiger and requiem sharks cruised around as individuals and not in bands.
1973 ‘P. Buchanan’ Requiem of Sharks xiii. 136 Any man-eater is called a requiem.
2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xiv. 362 The Carcharinidae [sic] (13 genera, 15 species) contain the somewhat chillingly but aptly termed ‘requiem sharks’; they range from medium-sized to extremely large.
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